Opinion: The Senate's Silly Budget

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... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... a ... Senate Budget Chairman Patty Murray release the Democrats' budget yesterday it it's ... a whopper ... about a buck and tax increases for every buck and spending cuts so what is the point ... editorial board member Steve Moore joins me from Washington ... Steve died Democrats is selling this is a big step forward ... true ... well you know when we dated for four years for this ... as you know Mary and I really wasn't worth ... it ... because this is AEI gigantic tax increase really to fund ... more government spending it is not adopt is a reduction package in fact we probably do better with the doc said if we just dialectic but to run on automatic pilot ... then this budget while the disappointing thing says a lot of its disappointing and this ... I'd say the two biggest aspirants are one point five trillion in new taxes ... I in the second is the absence of any real substantive I entitlement reply here we've got a nice little graphic on that let's put it on ... retail spending reductions over the ten year window ... by Steve ... it finally person looking at this and I see two hundred and seventy five billion dollars on the Medicaid and ... Medicare why isn't that enough ... well the the the the way that that ... real those of the phony cuts married because those are cuts to doctors and hospitals ... you know Democrats and some Republicans have tried to do that ... in all for the last five or six years and they keep restoring the cost is that the doctors and hospitals have been really cut to the bone in terms of their reimbursement rates so I don't think those are very realistic cuts ... in Medicare Medicaid I don't think that to happen ... the problem is there still reductions in any of the structural progress has no changes in the benefits of the progress with you talk about food stamps unemployment insurance Medicare Medicaid Obamacare in awe at all just all those huge boulders on remain aam completely in the budget with no reforms and more tax hikes teeth ... one point five trillion euros advertises caution one trillion but then they are a big turn off the sequester and the future reductions in spending caps ... and make wallpaper that by tax increases about five hundred and ten when they're not inadvertently this Mary ... there's another hundred billion dollars stimulus ... in his budget so they want other billion for for infrastructure of roads and education and in all that paper that with more taxes ... while Steve was this budget mean for Democrats are sitting in red states are Democrats who might be up ... for election in the next cycle ... inaugurate the seeking get this budget passed you remember it only requires fifty one votes to pass a budget through ... bought through this out SLB and he thinks he can get the fifty one dollars he made that need to bring joy ... and then that provide the perfect the first well ... aam but it is excruciating wrote in my opinion ... on for a lot of these kind of a gene called on the red state Democrats the people like Joe backbencher ... and not in Alaska and people like Joe Manchin of West Virginia and another two Democratic senators and in the state of Virginia op writer in Arkansas where I would wanna go back to my voters saying that for the trillion app dollars of tax increases they've already voted for now they're going to dump another trillion half dollar tax increase and allow ... see this is really a turning point for Republicans were they can point to this document Faucon Lee after four years and say ... they this is what Democrats actually wanted do you hear is in plain black and white ... the audio as I said our editorial the front of our lives said enough is no wonder that there are required to keep this top secret because ... now that they've really expose what they wanna do ... I certainly think and hope that the American people rejected ... any room for compromise and Allstate or are we looking at states this than for the next couple years so I you know Mary there's you know that too big to school investor this week is on Monday we got the Paul Ryan budget on Wednesday we got the idea that every budget they could not be further apart in terms of their priorities ... okay well I know you can keep an eye on him for a Centaur a board member Steve Moore from Washington ... thanks so much for being with us